The forecast for Friday/Saturday look good for race conditions.
Many competitors
have traveled to Cape Town to work on their equipment, and they – along with a
number of new entrants – return towards the end of the week when the wind
returns. The quest to beat 50 knots still remains to taunt the world’s fastest
speed sailors.
There are still slots open for new competitors to enter – log on to
Luderitz-speed.com to register.
Top results of the event so far for the 500m speed sailing category under
WSSRC rules:
(results verified by observer onsite, but still to be formally ratified by
Council)
New world record – outright: Rob Douglas USA – 49.84 knots
(92.3kph)
Sponsors: Black Dog, Lynch, Dakine, Amundsen, Cabrinha
New world record – women’s outright: Sjoukje Bredenkamp RSA
– 45.20 knots (84kph)
Sponsors: Naish, Roxy, Oakley
New France record – outright: Sebastien Cattelan FRA – 49.59
knots (91.9kph)
Sponsors: Genetrix, Xelerator, Prolimit, Ocean Eyewear,
Dabens
New South Africa and Africa record – outright: Hennie
Bredenkamp RSA – 47.59 knots (88kph)
Sponsors: Naish Africa, C3 fins
New Spain record – outright: Marc Avella ESP – 42.76 knots
(79kph)
Sponsors: Reef, Oakley
New Namibia record – outright: Jurgen Geiger NAM – 44.90
knots (83kph)
Open water windsurf record: Bjorn Dunkerbeck (SUI) – 44.74
knots (83kph)
Sponsors: Red Bull, VW, North Sails, Basf, Ecotel, Proof
boards, Oakley, Mystic
New UK record – kiteboarding: David Williams GBR – 43.65
knots (81kph)
Sponsors: Best Kiteboarding
New New Caledonia and Pacific record – kitesurf: Joan Henaff
FRA/NC – 41.01 knots (76.1kph)
Sponsors: Nouvelle-Caledonie North Kites
New Slovenia record – outright: Jernej Privsek SLO – 39.76
knots (74kph)
Sponsors: Jägermeister, Cocta, Kitesfera, Garmin
There is no WSSRC category by age – but South Africa’s Oswald Smith (12 years
old) reached 33.62 knots